Speaker: Julie Engel Manga, Ph.D, Executive Coach/Consultant, Synchrony Coaching & Consulting

Discussion Topic:

When we hear the word “meeting”, many, if not most, people roll their eyes. This is because most of us have the prevailing experience that work doesn't really happen in meetings. At their worst, we experience meetings as an interruption of “real” work. What if our meetings, indeed, what if each conversation we have with another at work was experienced as powerfully moving our work along?

On this call, Julie will introduce participants to a new understanding of language that supports individuals and organizations in taking more effective action.  Central to this understanding is that an organization is a “network of conversations.” Participants learn the basic moves that help them mitigate unnecessary break- downs, deal with breakdowns more effectively when they do happen, more consistently and effectively coordinate action and generate innovation, and avoid much of the mischief rampant in organizational life that breeds ineffectiveness and reduces individuals' experience of well-being.

Through participating on this call participants:
 

• are introduced to a new understanding of organizations as a network of conversations 
• are introduced to a new understanding of language that enables them to engage in more powerful conversations
• gain insight into the sources of common breakdowns they experience at work and how to resolve them
• will leave the call with some ideas for practicing these new understandings on actual issues they are encountering in their current work situation.

About the Speaker:

Julie Engel Manga, Ph.D. has over twenty years of experience as an organization development consultant, executive coach, facilitator and trainer. Her coaching and teaching focuses on supporting leaders in private and civil society sectors in being effective catalysts for change.  In addition to her own executive coaching practice, Dr. Manga is on the faculty of  New Ventures West, an International Coaching Federation-accredited coaching school, as well as the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, where she designs and leads classes for corporate managers and executives on catalyzing and leading organizational change.

Dr. Manga was also a professor of sociology at Boston College and Assumption College. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Tufts University and an M.A. and Ph. D in Sociology from Boston College.

In addition to her professional work, Dr. Manga loves to read, run, dance, is a serious yoga student and student of Buddhism, and enjoys good movies and conversation. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts with her husband of 29 years. She has a college-age son and two grown stepsons.

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